Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode is 400 megapixels/sec and 800 megatexels/sec.

Wasn't overclocked.

After the release of GeForce256 cards, NVIDIA representatives have began to understand that following releases wouldn't replace previous cards due to the short period between the new releases. Therefore it has been decided to build a so-called 'ladder' of the market niches, so that every accelerator would have belonged to one of them according its price and perfomance. The release of GeForce2 GTS has been marked by a much higher price for them than for any other of the previous cards. It has been meant that a cheap solution named GeForce2 MX would follow the release of more expensive variants to occupy a low cost niche and to replace more expensive and less faster GeForce256 cards. So, the Summer'2000 has brought us GeForce2 MX that is very popular today. And though this GPU occupies lowest niches, it's speed and qualitative features are well combined with low prices for such boards. Cards with faster memory occupy more beneficial position, what is important from the angle of perfomance.

We've already written about new MX200/MX400 series, released to replace GeForce2 MX, and the elder MX400 model - released to increase perfomance. Now ASUSTEK company went as far as completing its MX400 cards with very fast 4.5 ns memory. Read the review of this card here.

WARNING! GeForce2 MX/MX400 cards with the
5ns and faster memory can be clocked at standard clock rates and
not at those nominal for such memory!

For the 20th of January 2002 the latest drivers from NVIDIA are 16.30, 23.12, 27.00 and 27.20. As the drivers differences are equal for all MX/MX400 cards, there's no sense in comparing drivers separately for each of these cards. See NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 32 MBytes section for more information about drivers.

You can compare screenshots with reference ones (NVIDIA GeForce3).

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Game list:

1. Return to Castle Wolfenstein

2. Unreal2 - for GeForce cards, Unreal - for all other

3. Comanche4

4. No One Lives Forever

5. Serious Sam

6. Colin McRAE Rally2

7. Red Faction

8. Rally Trophy

9. Sacrifice

10. Venom

11. Need For Speed V (Porshe 2000)

12. Real MYST

13. Blade of Darkness

14. Giants

15. 3DMark2001: Game1

16. 3DMark2001: Game2

17. 3DMark2001: Game3

18. 3DMark2001: Game4

19. 3DMark2001: Dot3

20. 3DMark2001: EMBM

21. 3DMark2001: Vertex Shaders

22. 3DMark2001: Pixel Shaders

23. Black & White

24. Undying

25. Anachronox

26. Max Payne

27. AquaNox

28. Serious Sam II

There are some games that require something more powerful than this card. Look at Rally Trophy screenshot - we've had to lower quality, but the game was very slow even at medium settings and disabled reflections.

I shall mark that these cards sometimes have Z-buffer working incorrectly in 32-bit mode when Z-buffer itself is 16-bit, what causes artefacts. Such problems were noticed on some games with Unreal Tournament engine. Thus I recommend you to use utilities like Riva Tuner for fine tuning, and pay attention to Direct3D settings of such games.

2D quality is outstanding. Soaping effects can be seen only on some low-quality monitors in 1600x1200. And 6.* drivers are not compatible with the software for sound cards based on Yamaha processor, as well as with SoftXG100 software synthesizer. Start or Close Window buttons can be spoiled by some "garbage" in 2D mode.